Thread: Leashed monsters, zones and 2.0?

Hello folks.

While doing the imperial event or "hat farming" I started wondering about how monsters and aggro will be handled in 2.0(ARR).

For those who don't know, you farm the imperials by aggroing then running away from the repeatedly, and attacking them as they return to their territory. (ridiculous design by the way, making content that can't be beaten by the max number of people you can have in a group? why?)


Currently, monsters have a territory or to be more accurate they're leashed to a place, they'll see you, start to chase you then this will happen to them



and they'll de-aggro and run back, however with 2.0 moving from a semi-seamless world back to zones with loading screens between them, are we going back to the FFXI era aggro system where mobs will chase you until you zone or they lose your scent (walk on water or cast deodorize) or are we going to stick to the leashes but with (probably) a smaller range?

What would you guys prefer?

Originally Posted by Duuude007

Not by design.
Youre doing it wrong.

I've been in 8-player groups (with 1 non-combating non-healing scout) that can kill H-1 and all the elites at a rate of 12x an hour or more.

I'd like to know your strategy.

Originally Posted by Arkine

I'd like to know your strategy.

Not sucking. PLD WAR WAR DRG DRG BRD WHM WHM makes it a joke. The second tank could be another paladin if you want, and the dragoons can be anything, monks, black mages, more warriors, whatever. You just want to have the three damage dealers focusing down one elite at a time to lower the groups overall damage taken. More things alive, more things hitting you, it's math or somethin I dunno. It's a ticking time bomb until your mitigation runs out and you get unlucky, just like the monk faction leve.

The warriors run in and aggro, the paladin provokes the robot and points it away from everything else. One white mage half babysits the paladin holding the robot (stun is the only halfway dangerous thing, as nothing in this game can outright kill a paladin) and both of the white mages focus on the group. Kill things. It's very simple.

I've never done the leashing or sleeping thing because those both sound very boring.

The strategy to farming hat properly is..

one tank, two healer, one sleeper, mad DPS.
Sleep mobs, tank H-1, pick one by one.

yea.. theres nothing special


the good thing about leashing point for this fight is if tank dies, u can just run to the leash point or when mobs starting to resists sleeps because your DPS is slow and restart the fight once everybody is refreshed,

Only ever been in leashed fights, It's so boring and most BLMs kill while they are returning anyways, so pointless. ;/

Considering monsters in ARR are there for scenery purposes and have no use to you (you level and whatnot through Quest Grinding and Dungeons will be the source of anything most likely) nothing will probably aggro and have heavy leashes since we have them now in XIV because people complained mobs will chase you for too long.